cubase and monitor latency

[jimmychan]

Hi, I searched the BBS for something like my question but couldn't find anything like it, but sorry if I'm asking this again.

I'm using cubase VST 3.6 (I think, which is an older version). My system is:

1.3GHz AMD Thunderbird
512MB RAM
60Gb HD
Soundblaster Live 5.01

I'm having a bit of a problem with the monitor window regarding my microphone input (just going into the SB mic in socket -it's a rubbishy little mike at the moment!). There is a distinct delay between me saying something into the mike and this registering on the monitor level display. There's no delay on the output from the speakers, but I'm not sure if the delay shows up when recording direct to Cubase as I haven't got that far yet.

Now I understand this may be a latency problem, but whether it's just for the monitor levels or not I don't know. I checked the Audio/System menu. My current setting is ASIO Multimedia driver which has a huge 705+Ms latency. If I change to ASIO DirectX this drops to about 200Ms but the monitor level display doesn't seem to function with this. I can't choose ASIO Direct Monitoring, and currently it's set to tape-style monitoring.

Could someone give me a helping hand at what settings to change etc to get this going. The weird thing is that when I run Cakewalk it doesn't have these latencies from what I can see, so it must be just a Cubase thing.

Thanks a lot

Jim

 

[Chris Shaeffer]

Most digital recording setups have that kind of delay. It takes the audio a little while to get converted to digital- then get converted back to audio for your headphones. That's what causes that little delay. Its better or worse for each setup and doesn't affect the timing of the recording- it will all be in perfect sync when you play it back.

There may not be too much you can do about it. I'm not familiar with the SB cards, but if it is too distracting you can just mute the channel you are recording in cubase. You won't be able to hear yourself in the mix, though.

Hopefully someone else can help you with the SB card.

Good luck,
Chris

 

[Mealz]

SBlive

Jimmy, try some different drivers.

I get 8ms latency on an sblive! everything works perfect!

requirements:
win98
a little patience

I use the Audio Production Studio drivers (not official creative ones) They are for a much more expesive card that uses the same emu10k1 chip. They are hacked and turn the cheap SBlive platinum into a card with 10X the features.

benefits:

FX - reverb, chorus, phaser, flanger, compressor, distortion, parametric eq! - can be patched to a channel or aux bus

4 independant outs
front (out 1&2)
digital (out 3&4)
headphone (out 5&6)
back (out 7&8)
can all have different signals routed to them
and the best of all ASIO! with 8ms latency!


U need this ( to interface with the ac97 codec):

http://downloads.members.tripod.com/crosstudio0/SBliveTTT/data/csetup.exe

And this for the main driver/mixer software:

http://people.freenet.de/sblive2/APSLive184.exe

hope this helps!
If your not sure about something just ask

Amiel